Mumbai: This New Year, take the funicular railway to Virar temple

Devotees of Maa Jivdani, climbing nearly 1,400 steep steps to go to her famous hill temple located 1,500 metres above sea level at *Virar*, will soon be able to take a funicular train uphill. Trials of the funicular railway have already commenced, and services are likely to commence for the general public as a New Year's gift by...